Financial Times November 1, 2012 by Richard Cork
When the English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was first invited to visit a hospital operating theatre and study surgeons at work, she reacted with horror. Her young daughter, Sarah, had . . . recently been hospitalised in 1944, stricken with a bone infection called osteomyelitis. But even at that stage, when Sarah was bandaged "in plaster of Paris from head to toe", Hepworth realised that "the moulding of plaster jackets . . . was very near to my own profession."
